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    5 months ago

    What are the reasons those pointed-at reasons persist? Why does is that persistence more pronounced is some places, but not others? Can there be a symptom without underlying causes?

    Read theory if you’re actually curious and not just posting to post. Personally, I’ve come to think of inequality as being at the center of it all.

    But the reason is certainly not “because <<country>> is <<country>>”.

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        5 months ago

        Inequality doesn’t just turn up out of nowhere.

        Why would anyone post this? Of course it didn’t just turn up out of nowhere.

        What it is, and what I expect people with a modicum of knowledge of the English language to understand it as, is vaguely gesturing at the overall situation and saying “this thing here that be the way it do”.

        That quoted phrase you have there is pure hot nonsense.

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            5 months ago

            I know you think you’re the smartest person on Earth giving unthinking Americans lessons or something but you haven’t taught me a damned thing here at all except what the German word for neoliberal is.

            (But, I know, don’t dare call them that!!! 😡🤬 😤)

            😆

            Separately, even frequent users of the habitual be wouldn’t write a sentence like that.